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Anyone else watch Revolution on Hulu plus? I'm looking forward to the 2nd episode already. Don't have internet until we close on our house, so I watched it on my Evo. Will watch it again on my tv on Monday.

I love the genre so will most likely watch within a day or two of the new airings. Heard people talking about it and was wondering how they saw it already, I thought I missed the first viewing at first until I went through the guide.

I saw the first few minutes through Video On Demand. Why is it that when they portray technology going wonky, that it's like a analog TV losing it's signal? It should be putting up error messages, through up random characters or scramble the screen, blue screen, or something, but not like what is portrayed here. See

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Ignoring the idea that even battery operated devices fail, and the powerless aircraft falling out of the skys still have their navigation lights working....I liked the pilot. Not very attentive to detail, but a nice break from the political back and forth and endless reality crap of the last 6 months.

This show got sold on the same premise as Jericho: Minimal SFX, just a bunch of grade C actors walking around or on horseback in the wilderness and some distressed urban blight. Very minimal sets, Some fistfights and some crossbow foolishness. Cheap cheap and more cheap. Migod, even Republic serials had bigger and better SFX than these guys!

They shot the pilot in Atlanta, GA and the rest of the series in Wilmington, NC. Both right-to-work states, no union. Compare this typical network cheapazoid production with what the "little" guys are doing: Mad Men, Hell on Wheels, Battlestar Galactica, Copper, Caprica, etc etc. Holy cow, the major nets are looking like the cable castaways and vice-versa!

Umm.. *Nothing* can be as bad as Republic Serials. I've had a few of them (for 'Bad Movie Night') over the years and words simply cannot describe the awfulness. I mean, I'm sure that "Revolution" isn't allowing the shadows of the production crew onto the screen.

I liked it and I'll watch, but I'm sure it will follow the same path as other apocalypse series. Death in one season (or less).

Agree.

One has to wonder how much longer the networks will give JJ Abrams big money to produce these kinds of series...only to watch them fizzle out in the ratings. "The Event" comes to mind. They seem to start out big...and then go away...

Also set up a timer for this one as well, I dunno though, I might have to wait a full season to see if it gets renewed before I get into though. The non-conclusion to Flash Forward still stings a bit. I also didn't watch Lost until it had been renewed for a second season.

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams

"Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?" - Robert Jordan

Oh I love those serials from a "you HAVE to be KIDDING me!" standpoint.

I was introduced to them during the Science Fiction Film Festival at the University of Lowell (now U. Mass - Lowell) in 1980. A friend who was going to school there brought me along and it was quite an experience - 26 1/2 hours of the good, the bad and the ugly of science fiction.

We had movies like "Them" and the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". We had horror classics with Vincent Price, old Godzilla movies and, well, some less memorable films... We had "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" - starring a young Pia Zadora, and I would later see that movie skewered on Mystery Science Theater 3000. And I am not making this up - "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter".

In between the movies, they had WANTED to run episodes of a Buck Rogers serial - but they didn't have the money. So what did they do? They got a serial they COULD afford - "Zombies of the Stratosphere". I can't say enough about this.. But by the 4th episode, the entire auditorium was cheering and screaming for our hero, "Larry" (a Commander Cody knock-off with a jet-pack leather jacket and hollowed-out artillery shell helmet). One of the co-stars in this serial was a VERY young actor playing the lead martian's assistant (the martians were the bad guys) - that actor was none other than Leonard Nimoy.

I used to have two copies on VHS - one original B&W with all 12 episodes and one colorized and edited into something resembling a movie.